AN: I own Samantha, Raissa and Hunter. That's about it.

"New guy," Lita Kino said, poking her friend in the shoulder.

Mina looked up from her history notes. "Where?" Lita pointed across the hallway, where a blond guy was standing. A group of girls passing by got one look at him and began giggling. "Cute."

"You couldn't tell by the flock of idiots?"

"I know." Mina sighed as the bell rang for homeroom.

They sat down at their usual seats next to Serena (surprisingly early) and Amy, who were going over some algebra notes. "You remember that we have a test in this today?" Amy asked. The other three all shared the same look. Just the start of another day.

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"…introduce Miss Samantha Rudgren, our new exchange student." Raye looked up from her notebook to see the new girl. She could sense something about the new girl, something dark, but Raye couldn't exactly place her finger on it.

"Hi, I'm Samantha," the girl said, sitting down next to her. Dark aura, but damn cheerful.

"Raye Hino. Where'd you move from?"

"Oh, San Diego. I've moved a lot before, so I'm used to this by now."

"Oh."

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Mina sighed. It was only third period, and she was bored to hell. Her teacher was droning on about…something. She looked over at the new guy. An American exchange student by the name of Hunter Monqueri. Very cute, she thought, definitely out of my league.

Of course he was out of her league. If she wasn't so damn shy…

Thankfully, the bell rang at that moment. "Completely boring crap, isn't it?"

Mina looked up. "Oh, hey. Hunter, right?"

He nodded. "What's your next class?"

"Biology."

"I think that's near my French class. Wanna come with me?"

They were walking down the hallway when a black-haired girl ran into Mina. "Sorry," the girl said.

"What's her problem?" Mina asked, "I've never even seen her before."

Hunter sighed. "Her name's Raissa. We…went out briefly."

"Oh."

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"So, you can see stuff that hasn't happened yet?" Samantha asked.

Raye nodded. "Sort of. I'm not completely psychic."

"You just need to have that fire, right?"

"Something like that." Raye sipped her drink. She shouldn't have told her about being a temple priestess. After that, the girl had been firing questions at her incessantly. "What about you?"

"Oh, nothing much. Except I've pretty much lived in every major city for half my life. This my first time in Japan."

"Wow. Are you parents in the military or something?"

"Um, no. My dad's the head of a technology firm, and they have a lot of overseas factories."

"Wow. What do you and your mom think?"

"My mom's been dead since I was twelve."

That was weird. Samantha didn't look or sound sad about the topic…

* * *

"How did you do it?!" Lita said as she sat down for lunch.

"Do what?" Mina smiled innocently.

Serena plopped down on the bench. "Land the hot new guy."

"Hey, he came onto me."

"But still!" Lita said, opening her lunch. "I can definitely see something between you two."

"Whoa, wait a second! I'm the Soldier of Love, remember? Anyway, it's just my luck that his ex goes here, too."

"Mina, don't worry about her," Serena said, "She'll figure that he doesn't like her anymore."

Mina rested her head in her arms. I hope.

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PS: Isn't so obvious that Mina's going for Hunter? Well, he's MINE! Please Review.